Do Not Feed Alligators : like many other rules of its kind, it reads as a warning, an invitation to caution. But for the curious, inquisitive mind, such notions always provoke the opposite reaction : ‘feed the alligators’, ‘press the red button’—touch whatever it was that was meant not to be touched. In a ‘Do Not Enter’ sign, an open-ended proposition to boldly go towards the realms of the unexpected and the unexplored. A photographer’s mind is, by definition, a thing of tremendous curiousness. Its default mode of voyeuristic observation, undresses codes and addresses veils, capturing emotional charge in the glimpse of a fleeting moment or extreme beauty in everyday ugliness. Through the photographer’s lens, the ephemeral endures at last—summers are for once endless, and road trips live on forever, driving into the red dust of a distant horizon.
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